ESXi Server

“Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons..”

- Popular Mechanics, 1949

I think in this day and age any developer worth his salt has some virtual servers laying around, be it in the cloud, on a dedicated server, or on their own dev machine. I find having an dedicated box at home dedicated to running virtual servers to be a big help. Sometimes in running a few real servers I need, but mostly as a nice test platform for me to play and experiment in.

I currently have a physical server in my room that has VMWars ESXi 5.0 installed on it, below are the specs.

I hope to replace this system within the next 8 months. I want to go quieter, lower power needs, and higher redundancy. I am hoping to go all fanless or nearly all fanless. Bump up to ESXi 6.0, 32 or 64 GiB, an LSI raid card to support a raid 5 system. Anyone out there have an ESXi 6.0 whitebox at home with raid? (if so send me some recommendations on raid cards I should use)